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- LastHope
- Written by Manuel Lemos
- Version of 27th of May of 1991
-
- - Preface
-
- LastHope was written to help those who perhaps where victims of the
- mistake of deleting files that were not supposed to be.
- There are several programs, either commercial or public domain, but
- I don't any that can retrieve files which its headers had been wiped or
- just unreadable.
- For now, this program can only preform this task on standard file
- system (SFS) diskettes, which means that the program can do nothing for
- fast file system (FFS) diskettes.
- This program hould be perhaps the last thing you should try before
- you suicide. That's why I named it "LastHope". If you want to repair a
- disk with damaged sectors, I suggest you try programs like "FixDisk"
- before. I strongly discourage the use of "Disk-Doctor" which comes with
- the workbench disk (ignore system requesters that tell you to use it),
- because it tries to recover files to the same disk, overwriting intact
- and not deleted files with files with the same name that had been
- deleted. If you want to recover files from a device that uses FFS, say a
- Hard-Disk for instance, try perhaps "QuarterBack Tools", but remember
- that this program is not public domain.
- One important thing, is that you should always keep a backup copy
- of your work or programs, which almost of times saves you the grief of
- losing your dear bytes. If you are an Hard-Disk user, I perhaps would
- advise you to use "SuperBack". For floppy disks, any disk copy program
- would do.
-
- - Small print
-
- Every time you use this program to save your skin, think about the
- programmer because he had already thought about you, and feel free to
- contribute just a small sum which the shareware fee and write to make
- any improvement suggestions or tell about any noticed bugs.
-
- - How it moves
-
- Whatever you do, do nothing that you haven't been told to. Just
- follow the messages. This program won't make you disk worse as it is.
- For starters, click over the start diagnostic gadget, and then select
- the drive where your disk will be placed and insert it.
- The program will then bitmap your disk. If click over the any of the
- colored boxes that will appear, the program will display a relevant
- message of the correspondent disk sector.
- As soon as the disk scan terminates, the program will display all
- fully recoverable files with or without header, in a requester for you
- to select. The program cannot recover partially destroyed files. If your
- disk has been infected by Lamer Exterminator virus, files may have been
- randomly destroyed (refer to "VirusX" documentation), and the infected
- sectors will be marked with a red box. If a partially destroyed file is
- any good to you, "Fix Disk" or "DiskX" may help. The main function of
- this program is to recover headerless files even it can do more.
- If then you have selected any file to recover, you will be then
- prompted with yet another requester for you to specify a directory where
- to recover the selected files. Don't choose a directory that will be
- placed in the very same drive where your disk has been inserted. That
- drive will be marked unreadable, while the recovery is being done. Use
- RAM DISK if you don't have another drive.
-
- Whenever this program recovers your missing file, remember to reward
- the programmer that thought about you.
-
- the programmer
-
- Manuel Lemos
-
- Pcta. Dr. Agostinho Campos,8
- 3800 AVEIRO
- PORTUGAL